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Jeff Bezos has confirmed Amazon’s growth is slowing

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Re: Jeff Bezos has confirmed Amazon’s growth is slowing

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Post by cloakandswagger »

sonnyblarney wrote: post #32
manigandham wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is completely reasonable to optimize for the vast majority typing 'mouse' and potentially misspelling it. Also "mousr petronics" shows up as the 1st choice in the autocomplete when typing "mousr". This is probably one of those products that can and should have its own website and sell from there or link directly to Amazon instead.

I don't think it's reasonable to show one thing when the user typed another. There are dozens of product results, there's no reason why one of the proper results wouldn't show up as well. "Results for Mousr ..." "Results for Mouse ..." etc

There is a link on the search result page for "Search instead for X" if you really want to search for "Mousr". There's also nothing wrong with correcting what appears to be a typo'd word for a user (Google and every other search engine I can think of does this).

Seems more like poor naming on Mousr's part.

Re: Jeff Bezos has confirmed Amazon’s growth is slowing

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Post by hedmundson »

jonas21 wrote: post #25

It seems that Amazon grew its annual sales by around $50 billion from 2017 to 2018 for a growth rate of "only" 19% (compared with 24% the year before). I'm not exactly concerned for them. > In 2018, Amazon’s nearly $300 billion in GMV was about a 19 percent jump from the prior year. That was notably slower than the rates of increase of 24 percent and 27 percent, respectively, in 2017 and 2016.

Seriously, and they grew faster than the ecommerce category as a whole. Plus, double digit growth in the 100’s of billions of GMV is incredible in its own right.

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Post by benjaminwootton »

randomacct3847 wrote: post #36

Shopping on Amazon has become like shopping on Canal Street in NYC (e.g. street lined with shops selling counterfeit goods). You never know what you’re going to get.

I honestly think this is overblown on HN. We must have placed more than 100 orders a year as a family for approaching a decade, and I don’t think we’ve ever had a counterfeit. Not sure if it’s different in the UK.

Re: Jeff Bezos has confirmed Amazon’s growth is slowing

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Post by BeetleB »

whoisjuan wrote: post #12
toufiqbarhamov wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can live with the unpleasant UX as far as that goes, but where it implodes for me is having to sift through endless fake reviews, counterfeits, and shit products. “Amazon’s Choice” is frequently garbage, and everything else is a coin flip at best. I have to use Fakespot just to sift through the more obvious dreck. Of course it’s AWS printing their money, not retail.

Fakespot is pure trash. That thing doesn't work at all. According to Fakespot everything in Amazon is fake. Even small legitimate third-party sellers get bad ratings from Fakespot. But that's not even the worst part. I have found dubious listings where Fakespot didn't detect anything and gave them a semi-decent rating when it's obvious that the reviews were manipulated just by looking at them. If you want to understa…

>According to Fakespot everything in Amazon is fake.

I really don't know how good or bad fakespot is, but I get a roughly uniform distribution - it's not at all rare for me to see an A or B, and I'm pretty sure I don't see more F's than those.

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Post by Alterlife »

benjaminwootton wrote: post #44
randomacct3847 wrote: post #36

Shopping on Amazon has become like shopping on Canal Street in NYC (e.g. street lined with shops selling counterfeit goods). You never know what you’re going to get.

I honestly think this is overblown on HN. We must have placed more than 100 orders a year as a family for approaching a decade, and I don’t think we’ve ever had a counterfeit. Not sure if it’s different in the UK.

There's definitely a problem with fake or badly made goods on Amazon India. Scanning through some of the phone reviews a significant percentage of reviews will be talking about having received refurbished goods.

I bought my iphone from Flipkart (another online retailer in India) because there were multiple reports that Apple will sometimes not honor the warranty for iphones purchased from Amazon

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Post by randomacct3847 »

benjaminwootton wrote: post #44
randomacct3847 wrote: post #36

Shopping on Amazon has become like shopping on Canal Street in NYC (e.g. street lined with shops selling counterfeit goods). You never know what you’re going to get.

I honestly think this is overblown on HN. We must have placed more than 100 orders a year as a family for approaching a decade, and I don’t think we’ve ever had a counterfeit. Not sure if it’s different in the UK.

It is definitely not overblown. Easy to do simple searches on Amazon and compare to a site that doesn’t rely on 3rd party sellers like Best Buy. If you searched “wireless headphones” the top results are all knock off airpods and other suspect cheap Chinese made electronics with thousands of likely fake reviews. It’s a joke
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